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. Richard II (Folio 1, 1623) Act III, scene II
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Scroope. Glad am I, that your Highn{E}sse is so a{R}m'd
. To bear{E} the tidin{G}s of Calam{I}tie.
. Like a{N} vnseason{A}ble stormie day,
. Which make the Siluer Riuers drowne their Shores,
. As if the World were all dissolu'd to teares:
. So high, aboue his Limits, swells the Rage
. Of Bullingbrooke, couering your fearefull Land
. With hard bright Steele, and hearts harder then Steele:
. White Beares haue arm'd their thin and hairelesse Scalps
. Against thy Maiestie, and Boyes with Womens Voyces,
. Striue to speake bigge, and clap their female ioints
. .In stiffe vnwieldie Armes: against thy Crowne
. Thy very Beads-men learne to bend their Bowes
. Of double fatall Eugh: against thy State
. Yea Distaffe-Women manage rustie Bills:
. Against thy Seat both young and old rebell,
. And all goes worse then I haue power to tell.
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Rich. Too well, too well thou tell'st a Tale so ill.
. Where is the Earle of Wiltshire? where is Bagot?
. What is become of Bushie? where is Greene? ................................................
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. .y. o u r H i g h n
. {E} s s e i s s o a
. {R} m'd T o b e a r
. {E} t h e t i d i n
. {G} s o f C a l a m
. {I} t i e.L i k e a
. {N} v n s e a s o n
. {A} b l e s t o r m
. .i. e d a y,
{E.REGINA} 9
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https://theshakespearecode.blog/2011/05/21/the-earl-of-southampton-and-trixie-the-cat-part-three/
The Earl of Southampton and Trixie the Cat. Part Three.
May 21, 2011 by Stewart Trotter
<<On 7 February, 1601, on the eve of their Rebellion against Queen Elizabeth, the followers of the Earls of Essex and Southampton paid for a revival of William Shakespeare’s politically explosive The Life and Death of King Richard II at the Globe
Theatre. At the height of the Rebellion, the Earl of Southampton quoted from the play itself. He called Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Robert Cecil – caterpillars – exactly the word Bolingbroke uses in Richard II to describe his enemies, Bushy and Bagott.
Queen Elizabeth was well aware that the play was a satire on herself. Later on that year (1601) she said to the old scholar, William Lambarde:
I am Richard II, know ye not that?
Even Lambarde, a gentle, unambitious antiquarian, described Shakespeare as ‘wicked’ and ‘unkind’.>>
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